February 23rd, 2007 |
by Imnakoya |
published in
Africa, Blogosphere, Business and Entrepreneurship, Conflict, Diaspora, Egypt, Environment, Ethiopia, Governance, ICT, Niger, Niger-Delta, Oil, Web 2.0
Benn Loxo Du Taccu: Groovy Naija
African Shirts: Plaut and Hearing - Embattled Nigerian Vice President’s interview on World Today
NYT: Egypt: Blogger Gets 4 Years- An Alexandria court sentenced a blogger, Abdel Kareem Nabil, to four years in prison for insulting Islam and Egypt’s president through his Internet writings.
BBC: Oil worker shot dead in Nigeria
Via TechCruch: […]
February 5th, 2007 |
by Imnakoya |
published in
Africa, Diaspora, Governance, Nigeria
As the airplane was hovering over the frozen mass of the city before it landed, I wondered if circumstances in Sub-Saharan Africa would have be more positive if there exist a freeze-and-thaw weather cycle - the kind unique to north Europe and America?
January 3rd, 2007 |
by Imnakoya |
published in
Advocacy, Africa, Diaspora, Education, South Africa
“Sub-Saharan Africa is home to barely one-sixth of the world’s children younger than 15, but fully half the world’s uneducated children — the legacy of poverty, colonialism and historically inadequate schools,” according to a recent article by the International Herald Tribune (Education Blossoms in sub-Saharan Africa). The majority of this uneducated children are girls, and […]
December 1st, 2006 |
by Imnakoya |
published in
Advocacy, Africa, Diaspora, Health, Nigeria
Charity begins at home. Check out Emeka Okafor’s One Million African Lives Initiative- which aims to “save 1 million lives in sub-Sahara Africa over the next 5 years by reducing the number of HIV-infected blood transfusions given to patients and increasing number of voluntary non-remunerated blood donors”.
[tag]Emeka Okafor[/tag] is a Nigerian-American basketball […]
November 22nd, 2006 |
by Imnakoya |
published in
Activism, Africa, Blogosphere, Darfur, Diaspora, Human Rights, Sudan
Continuing the thread of an earlier post, blogging and activism, a new blogging initiative: “We blog for Darfur” - launched by Drima, an African blogger at Sudanese Thinker, and some Middle Eastern bloggers - aims to shed more light on the events in Darfur. Drima, is a Sudanese student in South East Asia whose eight […]
